It was after midnight when Matt and Emily walked into their house. Emily made a bee line for the couch and crashed into it. Matt followed her and crashed into the lazy boy chair. After working two straight weeks on the missing case of Isabella, they were both mental and physically exhausted. But they both would have still been at the office following dead ends if Cheryl had not ordered everyone to go home. Her exact words were “Go home and get some rest. No one is any good to this case exhausted. Let’s come back tomorrow refresh and bring Isabella home.”

    “Em, are you asleep?” Matt asked. He could see her eyes were now shut.
 

    “No, I’m thinking” Emily replied “I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep. I can never sleep when I have this much on my mind.”
 

    “You should try and get some sleep, I have a feeling that this case is going to drag on.” Matt said
Emily got up from the couch “I’m going to take a shower. You go on to bed” she said. A hot shower right now was all she wanted. Matt watched her head over to the bathroom. On a normal night he would be following her into that shower but he knew neither one of them could have sex tonight when a eleven year old girl was still missing.
 

    Emily crawled into the bed after her long shower, the clock on the night stand said it was 1:54 am, Matt was already sound to sleep, she cuddle into his body and closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep but no matter how much she wanted to she just couldn’t. All she could think of was Isabella and the fact they still had no leads or suspects.
 

    6:00 came way to fast, Emily had finally fell asleep maybe forty-five minutes before the alarm went off. Emily rolled over and hit the snooze button, she just wanted ten more minutes of sleep. Matt came into the room “I made coffee” he said
 

    “Alright, I’m getting up” Emily replied
 

    “Did you sleep at all last night?” Matt asked as Emily got out of bed and followed him out of the bedroom and into the kitchen.
 

    “About an hour or so” Emily replied yawning as she poured herself a cup of coffee “but you got plenty, you were asleep before I even got out of the shower.” She said with a smile on her face. Emily always loved to tense him and before they headed back into work, she just wanted to pretend that everything was right with the world and that there wasn’t a family out there was missing their child and that the agency still had no clue who had her.
 

    Matt smiled at her “I’m going to take a shower before we go in”
 

    An hour later Matt and Emily walked into the conference room at the CNU to read though more files when Lia walked in. “Good morning guys” She said sitting down next to Emily. “I think I got something”
 

    “Which is?” Matt questioned
 

    “So I know the tip lines were a bust I mean besides the tips that Isabella was adducted by aliens, or vampires, or my personal favorite she was carried of by little woodland fairies.” Lia started to rumbled
 

    “Lia you said you had something” Emily said
 

    “Right, so I got into the office like ten minutes ago and one of the techs that have been monitoring the tip lines bought this to me” She said holding up the tape “you two have to listen to this”

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